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Seasonal thermal energy storage

Seasonal thermal energy storage (or STES) is the storage of heat or cold for periods of up to several months. The thermal
energy can be collected whenever it is available and be used whenever needed, such as in the opposing season. For example, heat
from solar collectors or waste heat from air conditioning equipment can be gathered in hot months for space heating use when
needed, including during winter months. Waste heat from industrial process can similarly be stored and be used much later.[1] Or
the natural cold of winter air can be stored for summertime air conditioning.[2][3] STES stores can serve district heating systems, as
well as single buildings or complexes. Among seasonal storages used for heating, the design peak annual temperatures generally
are in the range of 27 to 80 C (81 to 180 F), and the temperature difference occurring in the storage over the course of a year can
be several tens of degrees. Some systems use a heat pump to help charge and discharge the storage during part or all of the cycle.
For cooling applications, often only circulation pumps are used. A less common term for STES technologies is interseasonal
thermal energy storage[4]

Examples for district heating include Drake Landing Solar Community where ground storage provides 97% of yearly consumption
without heat pumps,[5] and Danish pond storage with boosting.[6]

Contents
1 STES technologies
1.1 Underground thermal energy storage
1.2 Surface and above ground technologies
2 Conferences and organizations
3 Use of STES for small, passively heated buildings
3.1 Liquid engineering
4 Small buildings with internal STES water tanks
5 Use of STES in greenhouses
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

STES technologies
There are several types of STES technology, covering a range of applications from single small buildings to community district
heating networks. Generally, efficiency increases and the specific construction cost decreases with size.

Underground thermal energy storage

UTES (underground thermal energy storage), in which the storage medium may be geological strata ranging from earth or
sand to solid bedrock, or aquifers. UTES technologies include:

ATES (aquifer thermal energy storage). An ATES store is composed of a doublet, totaling two or more wells into a deep
aquifer that is contained between impermeable geological layers above and below. One half of the doublet is for water
extraction and the other half for reinjection, so the aquifer is kept in hydrological balance, with no net extraction. The heat
(or cold) storage medium is the water and the substrate it occupies. Germanys Reichstag building has been both heated
and cooled since 1999 with ATES stores, in two aquifers at different depths.[7] In the Netherlands there are now well over
1,000 ATES systems, which are now a standard construction option.[8][9] A significant system has been operating at
Richard Stockton College (New Jersey) for several years.[2] ATES has a lower installation cost than BTES because usually
fewer holes are drilled, but ATES has a higher operating cost. Also, ATES requires particular underground conditions to be
feasible, including the presence of an aquifer.
BTES (borehole thermal energy storage). BTES stores can be constructed wherever boreholes can be drilled, and are
composed of one to hundreds of vertical boreholes, typically 155 mm (6.102 in) in diameter. Systems of all sizes have
been built, including many quite large.[10][11][12] The strata can be anything from sand to crystalline hardrock, and
depending on engineering factors the depth can be from 50 to 300 metres (164 to 984 ft). Spacings have ranged from 3 to
8 metres (9.8 to 26.2 ft). Thermal models can be used to predict seasonal temperature variation in the ground, including
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the establishment of a stable temperature regime which is achieved by matching the inputs and outputs of heat over one or
more annual cycles. Warm-temperature seasonal heat stores can be created using borehole fields to store surplus heat
captured in summer to actively raise the temperature of large thermal banks of soil so that heat can be extracted more
easily (and more cheaply) in winter. Interseasonal Heat Transfer[13] uses water circulating in pipes embedded in asphalt
solar collectors to transfer heat to Thermal Banks[14] created in borehole fields. A ground source heat pump is used in
winter to extract the warmth from the Thermal Bank to provide space heating via underfloor heating. A high Coefficient of
Performance is obtained because the heat pump starts with a warm temperature of 25 C (77 F) from the thermal store,
instead of a cold temperature of 10 C (50 F) from the ground.[15] A BTES operating at Richard Stockton College since
1995 at a peak of about 29 C (84.2 F) consists of 400 boreholes 130 metres (427 ft) deep under a 3.5-acre (1.4 ha)
parking lot. It has a heat loss of 2% over six months.[16] The upper temperature limit for a BTES store is 85 C (185 F)
due to characteristics of the PEX pipe used for BHEs, but most do not approach that limit. Boreholes can be either grout-
or water-filled depending on geological conditions, and usually have a life expectancy in excess of 100 years. Both a BTES
and its associated district heating system can be expanded incrementally after operation begins, as at Neckarsulm,
Germany.[17] BTES stores generally do not impair use of the land, and can exist under buildings, agricultural fields and
parking lots. An example of one of the several kinds of STES illustrates well the capability of interseasonal heat storage. In
Alberta, Canada, the homes of the Drake Landing Solar Community (in operation since 2007), get 97% of their year-round
heat from a district heat system that is supplied by solar heat from solar-thermal panels on garage roofs. This feat a
world record is enabled by interseasonal heat storage in a large mass of native rock that is under a central park. The
thermal exchange occurs via a cluster of 144 boreholes, drilled 37 metres (121 ft) into the earth. Each borehole is 155 mm
(6.1 in) in diameter and contains a simple heat exchanger made of small diameter plastic pipe, through which water is
circulated. No heat pumps are involved.[5][18]
CTES (cavern or mine thermal energy storage). STES stores are possible in flooded mines, purpose-built chambers, or
abandoned underground oil stores (e.g. those mined into crystalline hardrock in Norway), if they are close enough to a
heat (or cold) source and market.[19]
Energy Pilings. During construction of large buildings, BHE heat exchangers much like those used for BTES stores have
been spiraled inside the cages of reinforcement bars for pilings, with concrete then poured in place. The pilings and
surrounding strata then become the storage medium.
GIITS (geo interseasonal insulated thermal storage). During construction of any building with a primary slab floor, an area
approximately the footprint of the building to be heated, and > 1 m in depth, is insulated on all 6 sides typically with HDPE
closed cell insulation. Pipes are used to transfer solar energy into the insulated area, as well as extracting heat as required
on demand. If there is significant internal ground water flow, remedial actions are needed to prevent it.

Surface and above ground technologies

Pit Storage. Lined, shallow dug pits that are filled with gravel and water as the storage medium are used for STES in many
Danish district heating systems. Storage pits are covered with a layer of insulation and then soil, and are used for agriculture
or other purposes. A system in Marstal, Denmark, includes a pit storage supplied with heat from a field of solar-thermal
panels. It is initially providing 20% of the year-round heat for the village and is being expanded to provide twice that.[20] The
world's largest pit store (200,000 m3 (7,000,000 cu ft)) was commissioned in Vojens, Denmark, in 2015, and allows solar heat
to provide 50% of the annual energy for the world's largest solar-enabled district heating system.[6][21][22][23][24]

Large-scale thermal storage with water. Large scale STES water storage tanks can be built above ground, insulated, and
then covered with soil.[25]
Horizontal heat exchangers. For small installations, a heat exchanger of corrugated plastic pipe can be shallow-buried in a
trench to create a STES.[26]
Earth-bermed buildings. Stores heat passively in surrounding soil.
Salt hydrate technology This technology achieves significantly higher storage densities that water-based heat storage. See
Thermal energy storage: Salt hydrate technology

Conferences and organizations

The International Energy Agency's Energy Conservation through Energy Storage (ECES) Programme[27][28] has held triennial
global energy conferences since 1981. The conferences originally focused exclusively on STES, but now that those technologies are
mature other topics such as phase change materials (PCM) and electrical energy storage are also being covered. Since 1985 each
conference has had "stock" (for storage) at the end of its name; e.g. EcoStock, ThermaStock.[29] They are held at various locations
around the world. Most recent were InnoStock 2012 (the 12th International Conference on Thermal Energy Storage) in Lleida,
Spain[30] and GreenStock 2015 in Beijing.[31] EnerStock 2018 will be held in Adana, Turkey in April 2018.[32]

The IEA-ECES programme continues the work of the earlier International Council for Thermal Energy Storage which from 1978
to 1990 had a quarterly newsletter and was initially sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. The newsletter was initially
called ATES Newsletter, and after BTES became a feasible technology it was changed to STES Newsletter.[33][34]

Use of STES for small, passively heated buildings

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Small passively heated buildings typically use the soil adjoining the building as a low-temperature seasonal heat store that in the
annual cycle reaches a maximum temperature similar to average annual air temperature, with the temperature drawn down for
heating in colder months. Such systems are a feature of building design, as some simple but significant differences from
'traditional' buildings are necessary. At a depth of about 20 feet (6 m) in the soil, the temperature is naturally stable within a year-
round range,[35] if the draw down does not exceed the natural capacity for solar restoration of heat. Such storage systems operate
within a narrow range of storage temperatures over the course of a year, as opposed to the other STES systems described above for
which large annual temperature differences are intended.

Two basic passive solar building technologies were developed in the US during the 1970s and 1980s. They utilize direct heat
conduction to and from thermally isolated, moisture-protected soil as a seasonal storage medium for space heating, with direct
conduction as the heat return method. In one method, "passive annual heat storage" (PAHS),[36] the buildings windows and other
exterior surfaces capture solar heat which is transferred by conduction through the floors, walls, and sometimes the roof, into
adjoining thermally buffered soil.

When the interior spaces are cooler than the storage medium, heat is conducted back to the living space.[37][38] The other method,
annualized geothermal solar (AGS) uses a separate solar collector to capture heat. The collected heat is delivered to a storage
device (soil, gravel bed or water tank) either passively by the convection of the heat transfer medium (e.g. air or water) or actively
by pumping it. This method is usually implemented with a capacity designed for six months of heating.

A number of examples of the use of solar thermal storage from across the world include: Suffolk One a college in East Anglia,
England, that uses a thermal collector of pipe buried in the bus turning area to collect solar energy that is then stored in 18
boreholes each 100 metres (330 ft) deep for use in winter heating. Drake Landing Solar Community in Canada uses solar thermal
collectors on the garage roofs of 52 homes, which is then stored in an array of 35 metres (115 ft) deep boreholes. The ground can
reach temperatures in excess of 70 C which is then used to heat the houses passively. The scheme has been running successfully
since 2007. In Brdstrup (http://www.solarge.org/index.php?id=1646), Denmark, some 8,000 square metres (86,000 sq ft) of
solar thermal collectors are used to collect some 4,000,000 kWh/year similarly stored in an array of 50 metres (160 ft) deep
boreholes.

Liquid engineering
Architect Matyas Gutai[39] obtained an EU grant to construct a house in Hungary[40] which uses extensive water filled wall panels
as heat collectors and reservoirs with underground heat storage water tanks. The design uses microprocessor control.

Small buildings with internal STES water tanks

A number of homes and small apartment buildings have demonstrated combining a large internal water tank for heat storage with
roof-mounted solar-thermal collectors. Storage temperatures of 90 C (194 F) are sufficient to supply both domestic hot water and
space heating. The first such house was MIT Solar House #1, in 1939. An eight-unit apartment building in Oberburg, Switzerland
was built in 1989, with three tanks storing a total of 118 m3 (4,167 cubic feet) that store more heat than the building requires. Since
2011, that design is now being replicated in new buildings.[41]

In Berlin, the Zero Heating Energy House, was built in 1997 in as part of the IEA Task 13 low energy housing demonstration
project. It stores water at temperatures up to 90 C (194 F) inside a 20 m3 (706 cubic feet) tank in the basement.[42]

A similar example was built in Ireland in 2009, as a prototype. The solar seasonal store[43] consists of a 23 m3 (812 cu ft) tank,
filled with water,[44] which was installed in the ground, heavily insulated all around, to store heat from evacuated solar tubes
during the year. The system was installed as an experiment to heat the world's first standardized pre-fabricated passive house[45]
in Galway, Ireland. The aim was to find out if this heat would be sufficient to eliminate the need for any electricity in the already
highly efficient home during the winter months.

Use of STES in greenhouses

STES is also used extensively for the heating of greenhouses.[46][47][48] ATES is the kind of storage commonly in use for this
application. In summer, the greenhouse is cooled with ground water, pumped from the cold well in the aquifer. The water is
heated in the process, and is returned to the warm well in the aquifer. When the greenhouse needs heat, such as to extend the
growing season, water is withdrawn from the warm well, becomes chilled while serving its heating function, and is returned to the
cold well. This is a very efficient system of free cooling, which uses only circulation pumps and no heat pumps.
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See also
Central solar heating Ice pond Thermal energy storage
District heating List of energy storage projects Zero energy building
Geosolar Solar pond
Ice house (building) Solar thermal collector

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